Run the following commands to install man: for i in configure src/Makefile.in src/makewhatis.sh do    cp $i $i.backup &&    sed 's/gawk/awk/g' $i > tmp~ &&    mv tmp~ $i done && chmod 755 configure && ./configure -default && make && make install You may want to take a look at the man hint at &hints-root;man.txt which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.